What is Load Balancing?

Published 2017-05-14

Modern high-traffic websites must serve hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of concurrent requests from users or clients and return the correct text, images, video, or application data, all in a fast and reliable manner.

Summary

  • Definition and why to use Load Balancer
  • Load Balancing algorithm
  • Session persistency
  • Elastic/Dynamic configuration of Server Groups
  • Hardware vs Software Load Balancing

Link

official nginx resource